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Show UTAH PLAYED GENEROUS PART DURING PAST YEAR I'Yodorlck J. Lyon, vice prosidont of the United Slates Smoltlng In charge or operations, oper-ations, says in tho annual report; "There Is sufficient tonnage In sight In the Bingham, Utah, mines to Insure regular reg-ular shlpniunls on tho present scalo for a number of years. What little exploration explora-tion work was done during tho past year yielded gratifying results, easily adding us much to tho avallablu or reserves as was extracted. Oro mined and shipped to tho Mldvulci smcltor amounted to 79,-676 79,-676 tons. Tho vnluo of tho ore was con-sldorublv con-sldorublv enhanced by tho, Installation In tho concentrator at MIdvalo of the Huff electrostatic process of separation. By this process the zinc contained In tho ire is separated and made to yield a ruvo-uiio. ruvo-uiio. Beforo tho Installation of this process proc-ess tho zinc; was not only a total loss, but it added on account of Its refractory nature materially to tho difficulty and cost of smelting. "At the Centonnlal-Euroka mlno prospecting pros-pecting was carried on with satisfactory results. Tho shaft was sunk to a doplli of 2200 feet. The .shipments of oro from this mlno during tho year amounted to 109.430 tone. "At tho MIdvale smelter 373,090 tons of ohargo woro treated during tho year. Tho load smoltor operated practically to ItH full capacity most of tho time, a romnrk-ablo romnrk-ablo record In vlow of tho small tonnago offered for salu on account of tho low price of metnlu. "Tho system of chomlcal treatmont of tho smelter gases and subsequent filtering filter-ing In a baghoiiHo wan In operation throughout tho year, and It accomplished all that was cxpuctod of it. Not only have nil damaging pffccls of tho gasos boon eliminated, nut tho jroducts recovered re-covered In tho baghouso havo gono a long way toward defraying tho cost of oper- , ating tho baghouso. "At tliu concentrator eight tables, Uiroe slimeiH and a rogrindlng plant woro added and tho alnc plant previously re ferred to was Installed. Tho latter contains con-tains fifteen Huff eloctrostatlu machines. ma-chines. "Tho United States Llmo company shipped 65,731 tons of llmo rock from tho quarry at Topllff. Utah. Tho deposit. Is practically Inexhaustible." Oro Shipments The Utah Oro Sampling company on Saturday rcleuscd eight oars of oru from Utah and ono cur each from Nuvada and Idaho campii, Motal Market, The motal quotations for .Saturday, posted by McCornlck & Co., w:is us follows: fol-lows: Silver, 5311c; lead, $4.50; copper, 12 7-16o San Francisco Mining Stocks, SAN FRANCISCO. May 7. The offU iH clnl closing quotations for mining stocks HH today wero as follows: 'Hl Alta 5 .11 Justice H Alpha Con ... .09 Ken tuck Con. .15 Andes 10 Mexican 1.33 Bclchor .90 Occidental ... .26 Bullion 13 Ophlr jH Caledonia 54 I Potosi 10 IH Chal Con '. 32 Savage 36 Chollar 16 Scorpion 07 Confldenco ... 1,10 Sag Bolchor . .23 Con C& Va .. 1.121 Sierra Nov ... .32 'H Con Impnrlnl . .08 Silver Hill ... .26 Crown Pt 90 Union Con ... .34 Exchequer ... .21 Utah Con 08 iH Gould & Gur . .30 Yellow Jack .. .9J Hale & Nor... .49 I NI3W YORK MINING STOOKS. Alice $2.00 tLeadvllIe Con. 05 'H Bruns Con ... .OS Little Chief .. .06 JM Com T S 25 Mexican ..... 1.30 fM do bonds ... .18 Ontario 2.0ft C C & Va .... 1.05 Ophlr 1.45 Horn SUvor. .. .65 Standard 50 Iron Sllvor ... 1.65 Yo!low Jack .. .90 'H BOSTON CLOSING MINING. 11 Allouoc .....5 40 00 Mobawk 47.00 'H Amalg Cop 66.00 Nev Con ... 12.00 tlH A Z L b S . 23.50 Nlpiss M ... 9.S71 Ariz Com ... 15.00 No Butto ... 31.00 Atlantic ... 6.00 No Lake ... 10.75 lH B C C& C - 15.00 Old Dom ... 33.00 " R&CCi-SM . 11.00 Oscoola 133.00 'lH Uutto Coal . IS. 75 Pnrrott lS.ICi IH Cal & Arlr. . 5S.50 Qulncy 76.00 Cat & Hec .. 575.00 Shannon ... 10.25 ilH Conton 15.00 Superior .... 39.50 !IH Cop R C C . 65.00 S & B M ... 9.50 liBCM ... 7.00 S&PCop., 12.00 'H Franklin ... 11.00 Tamarack .. 17.50. GIr Con 7.t:j USCiO.. 33.50 ' Gran Con ... 41.00 U S S R & M 10.75 IH Grouno-Can S.25 do pfd 48.50 1Kb! Royiilo . 11.50 Utah Con .. 20.00 Korr I.ako . S.50 Utah Cop... 43.371 LakuCop... 52.621 Winona .... 7.37i LaSallo Cop. 11.00 Wolverine . 110.00 tH Ml tun I Cop . 21.75 rH Mining Notcn. L. S. Gates, tho mining cucineer, lvia returned from a professional visit to Arl-zona Arl-zona coppor camps. Goorgo 15. Gunn, a director or tho Ma-son Ma-son Valley company, has returned from Arizona and Nevada copper districts. John A. Snlsbury has returned lo Salt Lnko after several months in the cast. Tho Centonnial-lCuroka company t ! hoisting between 100 and 200 tons of oro '1 dally, nnd by tomorrow the normal trn-nngo trn-nngo will bo produced, or 300 tons a day. Frod Klludt lert Saturday for Boston and New York on business connected with somo Arizona copper propositions in which ho is Inlorostod. He expects to be gone scvcrul weclu. r |